The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-06
Concerning Women.

Mrs Loene is the name Of the newly elected State
Librarian of Tennessee.
The Nebraska House of Representatives has passed
bill fixing the ''age of consent at eighteen years.
Mrs. Helen NJ Cougar expects to lecture in Barlow.
Fla. on Feb. 20, 81 and % under the auspices of
the Equal Suffrage Club. recently organized there.
Master Powderly has volunteered to send ninety
five thousand copies of Miss Wizards petition for
protection of women to as many local assemblies.
asking for signatures.
Mrs. E. B. Fairbanks. of Milwaukee, has been APP
pointed of a committee of three to investigate
ports in regard to illtreatment of patients in the
county insane hospital.
In the recent death of Rev. Dr. William g. Elliot.
chancellor of Washington University ST. Louis all
the measures relating to the advancement of women
have lost wise and steadfast friend
Tulane University. New Orleans. is to have men,
orial library of hundred thousand volumes the
gift of Miss Annie T. Howard The institution has
secured the Harmony Club building for the Woman's
College, established by Mrs. Newcombe, New York.
A, the annual meeting of the Woman's Temperance
Publication Association dividend of per cent
ordered paid to all stockholders. This is the only
temperance association that has been able to de-
clare dividend and is the only one in the world en-
trely composed OF women.
| A bill giving municipal suffrage to women has
passed the Kansas Senate by vote of 81 to g This
| measure has been generally agitated in Kansas
during the past year. It is asked for by numerous,
petitions hearing thousands of signatures and is
ported by the leading newspapers.
| Dr. Martha G. Ripley has established maternity
hospital in MINNEAPOLIS The physicians and officers
| are all women Married women who in poverty
and poor girls who have been deceived, but whose
previous record has been good, are to be admitted;
/ also, poor children for surgical cases.
| Evelyn College. for young women, is to be estab-
lished at Princeton next year The requirements for
admission will be the those of Princeton Col
iege and the curriculum will be nearly the same,
cept that the institution will have preparatory
department The greater part of the instruction to
| be given by the Princeton professors.
| Miss Dorothea Klumpke. of San Francisco. who
has been studying hem atics in Paris for severa
years. applied last fall to the professor of eronomy
al the Paris university for admission into his class
Sne was the first woman 70 seek admission and nov
this bright American girl and four Frenchmen form
the special class in higher mathematics applied
astronomy.
The Chicago Women's Club has undertaken TO col
lect and publish statistics and information abou
women's organizations of every kind having for thei
object the advancement of civilization Women
societies requested to respond promptly by writ
ing to the corresponding secretary. Mrs Mary
Sabin. No. 337 Mohawk street. Chicago. and Stain!
the name of club society. where located when OF
garized, methods Of work. object. membership Unite
or unlimited. &c. All this information will be put il
tabuated form. for easy reference and copy will
furnished to each society represented on the list.